tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749298464990595041.post7001682156158538183..comments2024-01-15T09:04:27.446-05:00Comments on Five Minutes For Fighting: Hockey Hipsters: The Brooklyn IslandersMatt Hornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12886353952693645816noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749298464990595041.post-55842853794173323812012-01-31T19:11:50.439-05:002012-01-31T19:11:50.439-05:00I don't get you Anonymous #1. You say you get ...I don't get you Anonymous #1. You say you get that it's a joke but then you take it really seriously and get mad. You are very complex.<br /><br />Anonymous #2. Thanks for getting though three paragraphs.Matt Hornerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12886353952693645816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749298464990595041.post-79500016921661971052012-01-31T18:11:53.229-05:002012-01-31T18:11:53.229-05:00I stopped reading the second you called islanders ...I stopped reading the second you called islanders fans apathetic... we as fans have been through so much crap with this team. we arent apathetic, we're hurt... And low attendance has nothing to do with the actual fans.. if you win, fans will come.. when a team has been at the bottom of the nhl for years, fans stop wasting their money... it happens with every team in every sport... fuck youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749298464990595041.post-79681426771583549012012-01-31T15:31:32.979-05:002012-01-31T15:31:32.979-05:00Dont take it so serious, Anonymous... Brooklyn is ...Dont take it so serious, Anonymous... Brooklyn is awesome.TheMetalChickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06627766622392257867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6749298464990595041.post-55393256216785349422012-01-31T14:37:17.767-05:002012-01-31T14:37:17.767-05:00This is the biggest pile of fly-flicked horseshit ...This is the biggest pile of fly-flicked horseshit I have ever read in regard to both my hometown and my hockey team. <br /><br />While I do regard the entertainment value of this and chuckled, you probably have never been to Brooklyn and don't know what you are talking about in terms of who lives here. It's the 4th largest city in the nation and has a ton of Jews, Arabs, Asians, Latinos, Gays, Irish, you name it. And that is what makes it totally awesome, not just one rube of an enclave that is considered cool. This cutural bullshit phenomenon called the hipster has now come to define Brooklyn somehow for people who don't live here, and even for people who already have lived here. Hey farm boy, there have ALWAYS been a ton of people here who read lots of books, love the Smiths and The Jesus and Mary Chain, sport a lot of tats, wear outdated clothing, relish eating homespun artisan pizza (before THAT was cooooool), work odd hours and have a brain -- they just weren't looking to make it all so lo-fi cool in the digital age while listing BKLYN as their hometown on FB only to speak with an Arkansas accent. If I had a ton of money to burn, I'd go open up a store in the middle of hipster-mecca Williamsburg that blasted all music they/I love, and had organic this and that, but it'd be owned/run by REAL Brooklyn people selling traditional Brooklyn stuff, speaking with Brooklyn accents, trying not to impress everyone wrapped in the hipster fugazy Brooklyn flag.<br /><br />Back to the Isles -- Brooklyn has always been in NYC's shadow, but no more. The Isles would not have to move here to be successful, they just have to win, and win consistently. And no marketer would dare bring back the fisherman jersey realistically. Everyone in Brooklyn who is a hockey fan mostly is a Ranger fan anyway, so it'd be tough to gain new ones for a bit, hipster or no. And these hipsters likely would not be running to attend games since eminent domain was used to ensure the building of the Barclays Center, something many highly-educated and politically active Brooklyn folks fought tooth-and-nail. According to the sterotype, most -- there's that word again -- hipsters would sympathize with that. <br /><br />So yeah, your post had entertainment qualities, but is totally pigeonholing of a town you don't know crap about -- basically a 1-note joke or Twitter feed that turned into a sitcom. Come visit and jump off the Verrazano Bridge. sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com